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Wild Bill -> (4/11/2001 12:19:00 PM)
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David mentioned my addiction to this Mega Campaign idea. Version 5.0 is significant enough of a change as to really stun you with the improvements.
But you'll really want this Mega Campaign. I had originally set it up for about 70 scenarios or variants. Well :D, it's grown a bit since then, so here is a little bit more about it.
There is really nothing difficult about a Mega Campaign.
Mega Campaign is mainly a matter of choices, choosing a battle, then following the path that it may lead you, with your triumphs or losses determining which battle you will fight next.
For example, if you are fighting at Agedabia, early in the campaign, and lose, you may miss some of the fighting and not be allowed back into battle (severe losses have caused your unit to be pulled from the line) until a few fights later.
That means you lose the opportunity of scoring more points. Total victory is based on how many total points you garner in your long odyssey through the desert in 1941.
You can fight as few as 28 or as many as 42 battles.
Now battles have options, which mean that when you play it again (it has replay value) you can choose variants of the original battles which may or may not lead you down a different path.
Or your score may be higher, allowing you to have more battles. The options go on and on.
We've added a little flavor with some pretty intense hypothetical (but possible situations), such as rescuring POWS, raiding ammo dumps, looking for hidden LRDG units, looking for Rommel and rescuing him (He is lost in the desert and needs an escort).
Or you might be a part of an end run, an amphibious assault behind Derna or at TObruk Harbor.
Who knows, you may end up on escort duty, or fight off attacking LRDG units trying to kill Rommel! :eek:
You could be fending off an amphibious assault by the British or looking for a lost German or Italian force.
Perhaps you'll be given a special mission to steal some Matilda tanks from a British tank repair facility.
And there are a lot more. So it is not just a matter of fighting, but a lot more chances and opportunities, some very unique will be found here.
And now some interesting data. You might find this fascinating.
There are a total of 132 scenarios and variants, 87 of them original scenarios. There are 200 text files of varying sizes, historical documents and over 200 pictures.
Thus you will have all these fine improvements in 5.0 and this great new idea of a Mega Campaign to use them all.
It will (along with the nearly 190 scenarios and 13 campaigns, a lot of both of them new)be enough to keep you busy :D
Wild Bill
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